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  • Food Waste Prevention Week 2025

    Food Waste Prevention Week 2025

    Food Waste Prevention Week 2025 is April 7 to 13. Sheryl Anayas and Liz Fikejs from Seattle Public (SPU) Utilities join us for an interview about the work they do to help prevent food waste, and how individuals can take action. What is Food Waste Prevention Week, and why is reducing food waste important?  Food… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo NW 2024: Suggested by an independent bookseller, University Book Store

    Milo Michels, bookseller at University Book Store, offers suggestions to fill your “Suggested by an Independent Bookseller” square – and more – for Book Bingo NW 2024. Maybe you’re looking for a suggestion from an indie bookseller! Or maybe your bookseller was publicly nostalgia-weeping into a copy of Because Of Winn-Dixie the last time you… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo NW 2024: Suggested by an Independent Bookseller, Third Place Books

    Spencer Ruchti, Author Events Manager for Third Place Books, offers suggestions to fill your “Suggested by an Independent Bookseller” square – and more – for Book Bingo NW 2024. Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry Of Cattle and Men lays bare the brutal labor of the slaughterhouse trade—a bit… Continue reading

  • Interview with Robert Dugoni, local author of “A Killing on the Hill”

    Curious about what goes on in the mind of an author? Check out this deep dive with local author Robert Dugoni! Tell us a bit about your new book, A Killing on the Hill, coming out on Tuesday, April 9. What inspired you to write a book set in this specific time and place? I… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads with Tricia Romano, author of The Freaks Came Out to Write

    Tricia Romano, author of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture and a member of the 2023 Writers Room cohort at The Seattle Public Library, shares some books she’s loving. Romano will be appearing in conversation with Dan Savage at Town Hall at… Continue reading

  • Data Privacy Week

    Nathan Merrells, Sr. Privacy Specialist of the City of Seattle, is our guest blogger today. He is part of the “small but mighty” privacy program within the City’s Information Technology department. The privacy team works diligently behind the scenes to ensure that the City’s Privacy Principles guide the actions that the City takes when collecting and using personal information. There are… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads with Tobi Ogundiran

    Tobi Ogundiran’s debut short story collection Jackal, Jackal is out this month with Undertow Publications, and he will be in Seattle at the Central Library in conversation with Nisi Shawl on Wednesday, July 26th at 7pm. Third Place Books is our community partner on the event. We asked him to share a bit about his… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads with Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry

    Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry, shares some books she’s loving. Garmus will be appearing in conversation with Nancy Pearl at the Central Library at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23. Set in 1960s California, Bonnie Garmus’ blockbuster debut novel follows Elizabeth Zott, a scientist whose career is shaped by the idea that a… Continue reading

  • Unmuted Spotlights the Connective Power of Personal Storytelling

    Seattle-based memoir author and writing coach Ingrid Ricks recently led a personal storywriting workshop for LGBTQIA seniors and their allies at Seattle’s GenPRIDE center. The workshop built a community of writers and generated an intriguing anthology of fourteen stories entitled Unmuted: Stories of Courage and Resilience from the GenPRIDE Community, released in October to celebrate… Continue reading

  • Harry Potter at Home

    The new Harry Potter at Home project is a collective effort by Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Audible, OverDrive, Pottermore Publishing, and WizardingWorld.com to bring the magical world of Harry Potter straight to you during these troubling times. For over twenty years now, the Harry Potter universe has been a comforting and immersive place for all readers, whether… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads with author Sara Donati

    Where the Light Enters is the latest from Sara Donati, a bestselling author known for her riveting and well-researched historical novels. We asked her to share her own reading list with us: I read a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction out of personal interest and professional necessity. My novels are deeply researched, so I spend… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Seattle author Kim Fu shares recent favorites

    Nightstand Reads: Seattle author Kim Fu shares recent favorites

    Our guest blogger today is Kim Fu, author of the forthcoming novel The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, in which a group of young girls descend on Camp Forevermore, a sleepaway camp in the Pacific Northwest, where their days are filled with swimming lessons, friendship bracelets, and camp songs by the fire. Filled with excitement and… Continue reading

  • Omar El Akkad, author of American War, on reading and the radical act of empathy

    Our guest blogger Omar El Akkad has been garnering rave reviews for his powerful, thought-provoking debut novel, American War. Set during the Second American Civil War of 2075, American War lays bare our own fractured cultural and political existence in a dystopian fantasy that rings all too true for many others struggling in war-torn places of the world. Today he shares… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Jane Wong

    Our guest blogger today is Seattle poet Jane Wong, visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University and author of Overpour, shares with us her current project and a few books of inspiration. She will be at MadArt at 7pm on Nov. 8 for the event “The Poetics of Haunting.” Dear Readers, My project, The Poetics of Haunting,… Continue reading

  • A note from Brit Bennett, author of ‘The Mothers’

    When I was sixteen, I started my first job at the Oceanside Public Library, a job that I, naturally, assumed would entail sitting at a desk, answering the occasional question, and spending the rest of my shift powering through as many books as I could. Little did I know what being a library page actually… Continue reading

  • Nightstand Reads: Seattle author Sharon H. Chang shares from her bookpile(s)

    Our guest blogger today is Sharon H. Chang, author of Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World. Sharon H. Chang is a writer, scholar and activist who focuses on racism, social justice and the Asian American diaspora with a feminist lens. She serves as a consultant for Families of Color Seattle and… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Collection of Poetry

    Join The Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures for our 2nd annual Summer Book Bingo for adults! Follow us throughout the summer for reading suggestions based on each category. Our guest blogger today is Rebecca Hoogs, Associate Director of Seattle Arts & Lectures. Rebecca curates and manages the Literary Arts Series, Poetry Series, Hinge, and SAL Presents. She is the… Continue reading

  • Book Bingo: Recommended by an Independent Bookstore (Nonfiction)

    Join The Seattle Public Library and Seattle Arts & Lectures for our 2nd annual Summer Book Bingo for adults! Follow us throughout the summer for reading suggestions based on each category.  Our guest blog today is from the staff of Ada’s Technical Books & Café in Capitol Hill; Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe is home to the kinds of books, gifts, workshops and events… Continue reading